Sometimes when working for a client, you get rewarded with sweet assignments. Back in 2002, Pierce was the official fire truck sponsor for the winter olympics in Salt Lake City. I was sent out there … before the games ……
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When I’m on assignment, some locations are built for dramatic images. Industrial settings fall into this category. The nature of the site combines with the that fact that there are all manner of lights and shapes that look compelling in the dark.…
Several fire truck builders and equipment suppliers made donations to the FDNY after 9/11 to help replace the devastating loss. I visited New York City to photograph several of these units after they’d been delivered. One was this FDNY Haz…
It’s not always a beautiful sunny day when I am out photographing fire trucks. Sometimes, like this visit to Harrisburg, PA, it’s overcast when I’m there and I don’t know when I’ll have the opportunity to visit again. It was…
Here’s the second article in what will be a series on photographing fire trucks with state capital fire departments. This trip was to Austin Texas for Pierce. It took place several years ago before I switched from film to digital…
This post is more about photographing fire trucks with people from an assignment in Eureka, CA. In the last post I wrote about the first dramatic location that I used, a lumber mill with huge piles of cut logs. I…
Here’s an example of another assignment that I had photographing fire trucks with people. I went to the town of Eureka in northern California. Known for redwood trees, I knew that I wanted to incorporate that aspect of their environment…
This will be the first installment in a series of posts about photographing fire trucks with people. For several years I was contracted to provide the calendar photography for Pierce Manufacturing. I travelled on-location to the fire departments that owned the trucks…